ABSTRACT
After making this rather awkward little speech, he explained to the Governor that the Marquis de Carabas was a nobleman, who after rolling in riches, which he flung about with profligate profusion, was suddenly reduced to a state of penniless destitution. " So I always call him le Marquis de Carabas I" continued Chassepot most genially, while he pointed to Captain Northwood. "It cannot last ! Some day will be a tremendous krach, and my friend le marquis will still be M. le Marquis de Carabas. N'est-ce pas, Madame de Quincampoix?"
